Kindred vs Elise
How to Beat Elise as Kindred
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Kindred vs Elise Matchup Summary
Best Kindred vs Elise Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Elise as Kindred
Tips for Playing as Kindred against Elise
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
Advice to Win Against Elise
Rappel has a long cooldown. Elise is vulnerable after she has used it.
Elise's Spider Form is more dangerous when you are at low health, and her Human Form more potent when you are at high health.
Rappel will only move Elise straight up and down unless she can descend upon an enemy unit.
Kindred vs Elise Counter Stats
How to Counter Elise with Kindred in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some vital Kindred versus Elise counter statistics that can help us understand the distinctions between this set of champions. For instance, Kindred’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Elise’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kindred may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Elise..
Kindred often has a similar longest killing spree as their matchup does. Typically, they takes a similar amount of damage to Elise. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kindred and Elise
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Who is Better, Kindred or Elise?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kindred usually wins when playing against Elise, with a 53.1% win rate. Therefore, Kindred makes a great counter for Elise.
While Kindred does have a higher winrate than Elise, when on opposite teams, Kindred also has a much lower learning curve that makes them a less time consuming champ to learn. You should be be fine when picking Kindred into Elise.
Furthermore, Kindred also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Elise. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kindred vs Elise matchups, Kindred is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Kindred is a great counter to Elise. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Kindred against Elise.
Other Champion Matchups Against Kindred
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kindred in order to counter Elise during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kindred on average racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Elise. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Kindred versus Elise build include Trinity Force, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kindred included at least these three pieces in their build, they performed a lot better when facing Elise than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Kindred boasted an average winrate of 53.1% when countering Elise with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Elise as Kindred, you should use the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Kindred vs Elise counters, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 53.1% winrate overall.
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